Family name origins & meanings
- German : metonymic occupational name for a flax grower or dealer, from Middle High German kūte.
- German : from Kaut(e) ‘male dove’, hence a metonymic occupational name for the owner or keeper of a dovecote.
- German : topographic name from the Franconian dialect word Kaut(e) ‘hollow’, ‘pit’, ‘den’.